#cynical

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#cynical #forgiveness #letting-go #sugarcoat #forgiveness

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#life-lessons #life

Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables. ↗

— Xavier Velasco

#humor #problems #humor

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#life #truth #life

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route. ↗

— Meghan Ciana Doidge

#insightful #reality #survival #life

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #wine #life

This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#cynicism #cynicism-reality #joke-life #life

alcohol played the midwife ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#cynical-humor #life

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#marriage #marriage

Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure. ↗

— Frédéric Beigbeder

#beauty